How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Quotations
Music
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
